Lancashire Witch Craze - Jennet Preston and the Lancashire Witches, 1612 (Lumby Jonathon)(Paperback)

Jennet Preston lies heavy upon me, cried Thomas Lister on his deathbed. We are told that his corpse bled when she touched it and Jennet was convicted of witchcraft. Was there really a satanic coven on Pendle side? Or was Jennet framed by Lister s son? And were the other witches actually caught up in a much broader and more disturbing pattern of religious persecution? In this best-selling account, Jonathan Lumby presents a remarkable series of new insights. By placing the events in their wider European context, he explains far more satisfactorily than ever before exactly why these disturbing events occurred.

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Perhaps the best book about 17th Century witchcraft trials ever written. This work is not just about a couple of court cases in York and Lancashire in the early 1600s. It closely examines those cases in order to put them in perspective, showing the beliefs
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